All are welcome to upcoming talk on Charles Darwin in Kilkenny

A talk on the life and work of Charles Darwin will take place at 11am on Tuesday (April 16) at a Probus meeting in the Clubhouse Hotel Ballroom in Kilkenny.

All interested non-members are welcome and advised to to come early. There is no charge.

The talk will be led by Dr Peter Boyle, a Fellow Emeritus of TCD who was brought up in County Sligo in the house in which the famous Cambridge mathematician, Sir Gabriel Stokes (of Stokes Law fame) was born.

He was educated at The Kings Hospital School in Dublin and then in Trinity College where he was elected a Scholar and then took a moderatorship in chemistry followed by a Ph.D.

He joined the academic staff of Trinity and was elected a Fellow of the college in 1972.

For several years he served as Senior Dean of the college.

He remained working in Trinity until his retirement with periods abroad working in the USA and Germany.

In 2015 he published a new book on the Provosts of Trinity College.

When Charles Darwin left school at the age of sixteen in 1825 he remarked about himself: “I was considered by all my masters and by my father as a very ordinary boy, rather below common standard of intellect.”

When he died in 1882, his name was a household word.

Today, Darwin is arguably the most written about and most widely discussed scientist of all time.

It could be said that no other scientist in history was to cause such a dramatic change in how ordinary people perceived themselves and their place in the world.

This talk will review the life, times and career of this extraordinary man.

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